About Us
Who is running Health 20-20? This is the web page of the Health Ministries Department of the Seventh-day Adventist Church World Headquarters. We started September 1999. As the page develops we hope to function as a "junction station" from where you can proceed to other health websites that highlight activities of our different partners. Check out our Links page — there are about 80 there now, and the list keeps growing. We do have fairly strict requirements for those to whom we link, in an effort to maintain a scientifically-supported, balanced approach.
We also wish to be a reference base for those who would like to learn more about Adventist health beliefs. For some information on that, check out the Christian Perspectives page.
Our philosophy in this web page is to make available information that is useful to you and helpful in your lifestyle. We believe in a "ministry of healing" by which we can be more nearly made whole. Our concept of "whole" involves "the whole person": spiritual, physical, mental and social — as we cannot exist in isolation. We also emphasize the prevention of diseases through simple lifestyle patterns that permit God’s restorative powers to work more effectively on our behalf, while in no way minimizing the effectiveness of proven therapy where diseases has already manifested itself.
We try to keep our front page chatty and relevant to daily affairs. We hope, with the passage of time, this site will become fleshed out and even more of a resource. Help us, please, by sending in your comments, suggestions and items for inclusion — we welcome them.
Our web mistress is Elizabeth Pettit. The Health Ministries Directorship is made up as follows:
- Dr. A.R. Handysides, Director
- Dr. P.N. Landless, Associate Director (International Commission for the Prevention of Alcoholism and Drug Dependency)
- Mr. S. Proctor, Associate Director (Nutrition)
- Dr. K. Kuntaraf, Associate Director (Prevention)
- Dr. J. Coggin, Associate Director (Middle East Affairs)
- Dr. C. Jackson, Associate Director (Allied Health)
- Dr. P. Jones, Associate Director (Nursing)
- Dr. Q. Nicola, Associate Director (Dental Affairs)
- Dr. G. Burnham, Assistant Director (International Development)
- Dr. G. Hopkins, Assistant Director (Institute for the Prevention of Addictions)
- Dr. L. Meister, Assistant Director (Vision Affairs)
- Dr. A. Robles, Assistant Director (Medical Affairs)
Contact our offices at 12501 Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, MD 20904 USA. Phone 301-680-6702; fax 301-680-6707. ________________________
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